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LAST WEEK, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) which makes nonbinding recommendations to the Corporation on its investment policy-held an open forum on University policy concerning investments in companies that do business with South Africa The now familiar spring ritual helped to educate students about the issues with a new twist-some members of the audience stepped up their call for the body to vote for divestiture, with the added demand that ACSR members resign in protest if the University did not been their recommendation...
Feelings cannot be captured in a box score, intuition cannot be put in a data bank, whim cannot be predicted. The decision-making process is everyman's secret ritual, forever hidden from cameras, tape recorders and pollsters' printouts. Indeed, it is often obscure even to the decision maker himself...
Every fall for the past two years, students have engaged in the ritual of entering the lottery for his course, Science B-16, "The History of the Earth and of Life." This fall was no exception, with more than 500 students vying for 250 slots...
Viewed as a creative means of familiarizing Americans with Tibetan custom. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a thought-provoking, often powerful performance which leaves the audience highly intrigued. Yet because it proves so cumber some to imbibe such ritual with the accompanying level of theatricality, the show fails to develop and sustain our interest. How much one can be moved by the performance ultimately depends on the intensity and extent of one's religious and philosophical convictions. If you're looking for an opportunity to supplement your foreign cultures requirement and are up for an intensely thought provoking...
...then subjected several of the animals to a mock trial and hanged them. More important, why did these printers of the 1730s think the butchery was so comic that they guffawed as they re-enacted it in pantomime more than 20 times? Was it sadism? Mass hysteria? Demonic ritual...